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Aasen Ivar Andreas (1813—1896)

Philologist, lexicographer, and writer, born in Sunnmøre, W Norway. A fervent nationalist, he was the creator of the ‘national language’ called Landsmål (later known as Nynorsk, ‘New Norwegian’), based on W Norwegian dialects. It eventually achieved recognition alongside the official Dano-Norwegian Riksmål (‘language of the realm’) in 1885.